You are your brand, and your teams are your biggest asset. This section looks at how you can maximize your own potential and how you can bring out the very best in your teams to grow your business and deliver exceptional service.

People & Culture (aka creating future stars)

You are your brand, and your teams are your biggest asset. This section looks at how you can maximize your own potential and how you can bring out the very best in your teams to grow your business and deliver exceptional service.

After a terrible experience as a young employee at an accountancy firm, April Bembridge came to hate the profession. Fifteen years later, she’s helping PKF Cooper Parry to become one of Britain’s most sought-after employers…

While most of us now recognise that healthy eating, work-life balance and exercise make sense, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and intimidated about knowing where to start. So we, at the BDLN caught up with celebrity chef Melissa Hemsley who convinced us that you can improve health, productivity, relationships and outlook just by making a few simple changes…

New World Trading Company is the UK’s fastest-growing pub business. It has graced the Sunday Times Fast Track 100 list for three years, and appears in the top 10 of the Best 100 Companies to Work For. Chris has not only found a winning commercial formula but he has done so with a happy, motivated set of workers. We met with Chris to see what we could learn about how he’s achieved such success…

Why does your firm do what it does? A surprising number of professionals can’t answer this all important question. One man who knows “why” is Feargal McCormack, managing director of PKF-FPM which was named Practice of the Year at this year’s Irish Accountancy Awards…

“We have an open and transparent culture…. blah, blah, blah.” Just another line spouted out by many firms. Here’s a good test… does your firm hide what its partners earn, or does it share the figures – bonuses, warts, envy and all? If these figures are kept under wraps, the chances are that openness might not be as embedded as they claim…

“Work out? Actually do some exercise? Ha! Don’t make me laugh. I’ve got clients hunting me down with pitchforks and a ton of new business to win.” We know it’s hard to find time to exercise, so we spoke to one of the country’s top personal trainers, Matt Roberts, to get some inspiration…

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